Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-03
The State Fair.


lsan Francisco Chronicle, August 2d.I
Every indication predicts that the com
ing State Fair will be entirely successful
The counties of San Joaquin, Ell Dorado
Placer, Nevada, Tehama and Sacrament,
have taken hold of the matter in goot
earnest. have selected their respective ioca
tons, and are busily engaged in working
up their products for competition: and thu
rivalry is so great that an unusual display
OF Callfornla's products may be expected
This year there will be something new
IN the nature OF premium offered from
outside the State. The American JERSEY
Cattle Club of New York has off.red as ar
American Jersey Cattle Club prize the
sum OF 500, in addition to the regular
premiums offered by the State Agricultural
Society, for the best herd of registered
Jersey cattle shown at this fair. The breed.
ing of these beautiful cattle has attracted
much attention of late years in California
and this recognition by the leading cattle
club of the United Stat IS Will give the sub.
lect a new interest, beside showing the
comparative excellence of our jersey heads
to good advantage.
The exhibits in the Pavilion will sur.
pass in number and variety those of any
previous year. City merchants are anx-
lous to meet consumers from the interior
and show them their goods and will take
this opportunity of presenting them in the
most attractive manner.
The wine exhibit will uuquestionablv be
interesting in the extreme, and il is I'M
necessary to say that pure wine will be the
only sort which the makers will place on
exhibition. One wine-grower has signified
his intention of having a large hogshead
OF wine on tap for the purpose of furnish
ing the visitors sample of the best Tin
fandel raised in California, and it is safe
to say that his example will be followed
by makers of other kinds of wine, so that
comparisons can be drawn by all who de-
sire as well as by the sampling COM
mittees.
An objection has often been urged to
State Fairs in California, perhaps with some
show of reason, that they are only dis
gulse tor horse-racing, and that the fair, in
the best sense of the word, is subordinated
to the pool-box While it is true that rae
ing IS proper and important factor in a
State Fair, it should be remembered that
this year, OF all years, something more is
needed than horse-races. Our Eastern WIS.,
itors have not crossed continent to see
half dozen colts chase each other around
arace-track, or to see how near driver can
SIT to the front edge of sulky without
falling under the horses heels. They do
not care, as rule, whether horse trots in
2:39 or 2:3S, for the reason thst many of
them have seen all that sort of thing over
and over again. They may take some in
terest in speed trials, but merely as an in
cident to the State Fair and not as the
fair ITSELF
Our visitors will want to be satisfied that
we can raise something in the livestock
line besides running and trotting horses.
They will want to compare our draft
horses and our cattle and our sheen and
our hogs with those they have been accus-
toned to see, and this feature of the fair
should receive special attention.
Let the State Fair be made a genuine ex-
hibition of all the choicest products of the
State, of every kind and sort and its in :.
tiuence on the prosperity of California will
be almost incalculable.